Bobby Hutton

Bobby Hutton (21 April 1950-6 April 1968) was the Treasurer of the Black Panther Party, as well as the first person to join the group, in October 1966.

Biography
Bobby Hutton was born on 21 April 1950 in Jefferson County, Arkansas, and his family moved to Oakland, California due to being intimidated by local racists. Hutton attended the North Oakland Anti-Poverty Community Center, meeting Huey P. Newton and Bobby Seale there, being recruited into the Black Panther Party as its first recruit; he would be made its treasurer. In May 1967, he was arrested with four other Panthers after entering the state assembly building with guns to protest the Mulford Act, which outlawed carrying loaded guns in public. Hutton would join Eldridge Cleaver in an April 1968 ambush of Oakland Police officers, turning into a 90-minute shootout at a West Oakland house. Hutton was forced to surrender with Cleaver and the twelve other Panthers involved, but he was shot multiple times by the police as he attempted to flee. He was considered to be the first martyr of the Black Power cause, as he was the first Panther to be killed by law enforcement.